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What does it mean?
The speaker left Scotland to support their rightful king.
In plain terms
We left home to support our true king.
What can you take from it?
Loyalty to a leader can mean exile.

Where it applies

  • political exile
  • loyalty to monarchs

Putting it to work

  • expressing allegiance
  • recalling historical events

Questions to consider

  • What are you willing to leave for a cause?
  • How do you define rightful authority?

Another view

This requires historical knowledge of the Jacobite uprisings.

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